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Left wing · #81

Dominik Kubalik

Chicago Blackhawks Detroit Red Wings Ottawa Senators(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
87 kg
Born
Plzen, CZE
Draft
2013, round 7, #191 (LAK)

Career · 2019–20 to 2023–24

Games
357
Goals
93
Points
176
TOI per game
14:14
xGF% (5v5)
45.7%
Goals above expected
+7.2
ShowAll teamsChicago BlackhawksDetroit Red WingsOttawa Senators

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2019–20CHI68301646+214:2215719.1%719.950.0%
2020–21CHI56172138−315:3115610.9%1415.447.9%
2021–22CHI78151732−1614:311619.3%918.345.6%
2022–23DET81202545−1514:5517411.5%1721.446.4%
2023–24OTT7411415−3012:079112.1%410.736.9%
Total3 teams3579383176−6214:1473912.6%5185.845.7%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.511.550100150200250300350
8m10m12m14m16m18m50100150200250300350Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2019–20 to 2023–24 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

66th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st line
  • Goals /601.1087th pct
  • Assists /600.9855th pct
  • ixG /601.0184th pct
  • Goals above expected+7.285th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.7%24th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.9%20th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.049th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0851st pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:1456th pct
  • PP time share38.3%70th pct
  • Offensive zone starts62.8%73rd pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%60th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Jakub VranaWSH/DET/STL0.87
  2. Frank VatranoFLA/ANA0.87
  3. Artem AnisimovOTT0.85
  4. Cole CaufieldMTL0.84
  5. Kirill MarchenkoCBJ0.84
  6. Adam FantilliCBJ0.83

Faceoffs

How often Kubalik wins the draw over 2019–20 to 2023–24, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 922+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

40.4%

46–68 · below the 922 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.8%

Opponents won 50.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.6% against them.

Wins above average

−11

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.4

114 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

25%12 · +1.345%55 · +2.340%20 · −4.250%6 · 0.033%3 · 0.050%4 · 0.00%1 · –38%8 · +3.320%5 · +4.5Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone44.0% 33–42
  • Neutral zone34.6% 9–17
  • Defensive zone30.8% 4–9

By strength

  • Even strength39.6% 38–58
  • Power play44.4% 8–10

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +24 after a win, −10 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2019–201931.6%32.9%
2020–2130.0%3.5%
2021–222040.0%40.4%
2022–233548.6%48.6%
2023–243740.5%40.7%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+7.2 goals above expected

02040608010050100150200250300350Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−60−40−200+20+40+60+80

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.1 km/h31st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4947th pct
  • Hardest shot147.0 km/h78th pct
  • Distance skated214 km50th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.3%38th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.1 km/h19th pct

▼ −1.1 km/h since 2022–23

34.53535.53636.53721–2222–2323–242021–22: 35.3 km/h, 26th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 56th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 35.1 km/h, 19th percentile (74 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.324th pct

▲ +0.1 since 2022–23

24681021–2222–2323–242021–22: 3.9, 33rd percentile (78 games)2022–23: 3.1, 26th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 3.3, 24th percentile (74 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.3 km5th pct

▼ −0.2 km since 2022–23

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 14.9 km, 16th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 14.5 km, 10th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 14.3 km, 5th percentile (74 games)

Hardest shot

147.0 km/h72nd pct

▲ +1.3 km/h since 2022–23

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–242021–22: 149.9 km/h, 77th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 145.7 km/h, 62nd percentile (81 games)2023–24: 147.0 km/h, 72nd percentile (74 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.3%43rd pct

▼ −2.2 points since 2022–23

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 41.1%, 41st percentile (78 games)2022–23: 43.5%, 69th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 41.3%, 43rd percentile (74 games)